Category: Youth Mentors

Chris Takes a Walk on the Wild Side

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In a previous post Youth Odyssey revealed our new partnership with Majesty Outdoors, a local nonprofit that uses hunting and fishing trips to connect with fatherless youth and showcases their adventures via a television show called Majesty Outdoors Television. We settled on the partnership due to having overlapping demographics in our organizations and agreed that… Read more »

2017 Here We Come!

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Youth Odyssey has been making a difference in the lives of at-risk youth here in the Coastal Bend for the past 19 years; and 2017 makes it our 20th. We have come a long way from an attorney who wanted to get kids active in something other than breaking the law. When we started we maybe… Read more »

Youth Odyssey Birthday Bash!

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For those of you who follow our blog posts each week, you may remember us mentioning a Birthday Fiesta Celebration. Well, in February, Youth Odyssey is celebrating our 20th year as a nonprofit serving the at-risk population here in the Coastal Bend. We are so excited to have reached this amazing milestone and we want… Read more »

New Partnership with Majesty Outdoors!

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Youth Odyssey has been making moves to create new partnerships and program-sponsors with other, like-minded, businesses and organizations and we are proud to say that we have created a new, fun and exciting partnership with Majesty Outdoors! What is Majesty Outdoors? you may be asking. Like Youth Odyssey, Majesty Outdoors Foundation is also a 501-c-(3) non-profit… Read more »

Big Bend or Bust: 2016 Thanksgiving Mentor Trip

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Starting at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 19, two staff members and eight youth mentors met up at South Park Middle School to load up and start the long trip to Big Bend National Park for Thanksgiving break. The ride there was, luckily, pretty uneventful and consisted mainly of listening to mix CD’s, sleeping and… Read more »

Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving

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2016 has been a huge time of growth in Youth Odyssey and we have been so fortunate to see the fruits of our labor finally coming together into a tangible vision. We are now, able to speak more matter of factly about the future of the organization and less “at some point in the future, it… Read more »

CCISD Programs are Back!

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Youth Odyssey just finished up its on-site housing programs this week and, starting next week,  Youth Odyssey will continue our partnership with the Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD). Starting on next Tuesday, October 11th, Youth Odyssey will begin its after school programs with six middle schools in the coastal bend area. The schedule for… Read more »

The Advantages to the Mentor Program

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Last weeks blog discussed how Youth Odyssey’s mentor program was created in 2008 and how we use the program to foster and build up our amazing mentors. Becoming a mentor-in-training and then a mentor are exciting steps in Youth Odyssey because we are allowing our mentors to take on more responsibility and grow into new positions. Youth… Read more »